Two years in two minutes.

Every morning, as I'm prioritizing my to-do list, I think about this quote from Anna Quindlen:

“…the biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make…I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of the three of [my children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages 6, 4, and 1. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less.” 

Some days I do better than others. But everyday, I have to remind myself to slow down and savor these fleeting moments as time flies right on by.


My boy turns 2 tomorrow, and I can't wait to start his special day with brown sugar biscuits and a side of nostalgia. I have been writing Beckham letters on a private blog since before he was born. I am in the process of making it into a book, and love to go back and read about the little details that have shaped his life so far.

If you are anything like me, the popular Google Chrome: Dear Sophie commercial is hard to watch with a dry eye.  When I first saw it months ago, I immediately thought of all the letters piling up on B's blog.  It inspired me to do the same with my own letters. This is my copycat/nowhere-near-as-genius version of their amazing video, Beckham style.   

Song: Sort Of - Ingrid Michaelson
Video: Recorded on iPhone, 8 mm App